Dear Gerry<div><br></div><div>Wonderful to hear your positive experiences. As you've correctly assumed, Sugar on a Stick does not contain non-free drivers. Do you have experience with the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution? If so, I recommend you take a peek at <a href="http://rpmfusion.org/">http://rpmfusion.org/</a>. If not, some instructions are here: <a href="https://answers.launchpad.net/soas/+faq/746">https://answers.launchpad.net/soas/+faq/746</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Please let me know if those instructions provide sufficient clarity.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Tim McNamara</div><div>@timClicks</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/12/12 Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
FYI<br>
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From: Gerry Beaudoin <<a href="mailto:gerry.beaudoin@gmail.com">gerry.beaudoin@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:09 PM<br>
Subject: Sugar on a stick working on a HP Mini 2140 Netbook<br>
To: walter <<a href="mailto:walter@sugarlabs.org">walter@sugarlabs.org</a>><br>
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Hello,<br>
<br>
I'm a teacher in Edmonton, Alberta with a host of HP Mini 2140<br>
netbooks in my classroom. I built myself a bootable USB stick and got<br>
sugar running on one of our netbooks. The OS is nothing short of<br>
extraordinary. I hope to be able to use it to teach the new computing<br>
science curriculum to early high school students.<br>
<br>
My problem is that I can't seem to connect or even view any network<br>
access points. I'm pretty sure it's because the live USB stick<br>
doesn't include driver support for the Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/draft-n<br>
hardware included in the netbook. iwconfig does not report any<br>
functioning eth ports. I've tangled with broadcom wireless drivers on<br>
linux before...<br>
<br>
Sound works as does the touchpad. It even detects battery levels.<br>
I'm still testing other functionality but would love to get the<br>
networking/collaboration functionality working. Any suggestions/links?<br>
<br>
Thanks for your time,<br>
<br>
Gerry<br>
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Walter Bender<br>
Sugar Labs<br>
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